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Copy non windows drive to another

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mad1231moody
mad1231moody Original post #1
Nov 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Just got myself a new 1TB HDD. I want to copy all the contents of Drive D:which is non windows drive to the new HDD. I want all the contents as they are on new drive(500 GB partition). Now the new drive is more roomier then my D: drive so I am not sure if copying sector by sector will work as I also have to do the same thing for my old E: drive(the 500 gig drive I mentioned before) . Just plain copy-paste will take a lot of time and I am just hoping that there is a way around this to get the job done quickly. Waiting for your answers to pour in :-D
arpanmukherjee1
Nov 13, 2010 at 11:14 PM
download teracopy

it copies with increased priority and more buffer.

what format is the "non-windows-drive" ??

it has formatting other than FAT32/NTFS OR it does not contain windows files?
mad1231moody
Nov 15, 2010 at 9:56 AM
OK Teracopy is fine. I thought that some sort of cloning software would do the job here!
The non-windows drive does not contain any windows files, it is a normal NTFS drive with movies and songs. So any other suggestion now?